[gentoo-user] What happened to boot.msg?

[gentoo-user] What happened to boot.msg?

[Peter Ruskin]

I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first time.  
On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was logged 
to /var/log/boot.msg.  It doesn't do this on the new machine and I 
can't for the life of me recall what setting invoked this 
behaviour.   Help??
-- 
Peter
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Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc46			kernel-2.6.31-gentoo-r3
AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor		gcc(Gentoo: 4.3.2-r3)
KDE: 3.5.10					Qt: 3.3.8b
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[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

[walt]

On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first time.  
> On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was logged 
> to /var/log/boot.msg.  It doesn't do this on the new machine and I 
> can't for the life of me recall what setting invoked this 
> behaviour.   Help??

/etc/conf.d/rc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

[Peter Ruskin]

On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote:
> On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first
> > time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was
> > logged to /var/log/boot.msg.  It doesn't do this on the new
> > machine and I can't for the life of me recall what setting
> > invoked this behaviour.   Help??
>
> /etc/conf.d/rc

Thanks for the reminder, walt.  I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored there 
and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot splash, 
but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.

-- 
Peter
========================================================================
Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc46			kernel-2.6.31-gentoo-r3
AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor		gcc(Gentoo: 4.3.2-r3)
KDE: 3.5.10					Qt: 3.3.8b
========================================================================

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

[Peter Ruskin]

On Friday 23 October 2009 19:00:34 Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote:
> > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the
> > > first time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot
> > > process was logged to /var/log/boot.msg.  It doesn't do this
> > > on the new machine and I can't for the life of me recall what
> > > setting invoked this behaviour.   Help??
> >
> > /etc/conf.d/rc
>
> Thanks for the reminder, walt.  I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored
> there and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot
> splash, but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.

Ahhh ... I found it.  It's now stored in /var/log/rc.log.

-- 
Peter
========================================================================
Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc46			kernel-2.6.31-gentoo-r3
AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor		gcc(Gentoo: 4.3.2-r3)
KDE: 3.5.10					Qt: 3.3.8b
========================================================================

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

[William Hubbs]

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 07:00:34PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote:
> > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first
> > > time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was
> > > logged to /var/log/boot.msg.  It doesn't do this on the new
> > > machine and I can't for the life of me recall what setting
> > > invoked this behaviour.   Help??
> >
> > /etc/conf.d/rc
> 
> Thanks for the reminder, walt.  I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored there 
> and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot splash, 
> but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.
 
 If you are running ~amd64 you are probably using baselayout-2 and
 openrc.  In that case the file you should be looking at is /etc/rc.conf and you
 should not use app-admin/showconsole.

Just set RC_LOGGER to yes as shown in the comments.

-- 
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@gentoo.org

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

[Peter Ruskin]

On Friday 23 October 2009 20:00:33 William Hubbs wrote:
> > Thanks for the reminder, walt.  I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored
> > there and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot
> > splash, but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.
>
>  
>  If you are running ~amd64 you are probably using baselayout-2
> and openrc.  In that case the file you should be looking at is
> /etc/rc.conf and you should not use app-admin/showconsole.
>
> Just set RC_LOGGER to yes as shown in the comments.

Thanks - RC_LOGGER was already at yes, so I've uninstalled 
app-admin/showconsole

-- 
Peter
========================================================================
Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc46			kernel-2.6.31-gentoo-r3
AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor		gcc(Gentoo: 4.3.2-r3)
KDE: 3.5.10					Qt: 3.3.8b
========================================================================

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

[covici]

Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> On Friday 23 October 2009 19:00:34 Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote:
> > > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the
> > > > first time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot
> > > > process was logged to /var/log/boot.msg.  It doesn't do this
> > > > on the new machine and I can't for the life of me recall what
> > > > setting invoked this behaviour.   Help??
> > >
> > > /etc/conf.d/rc
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder, walt.  I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored
> > there and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot
> > splash, but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.
> 
> Ahhh ... I found it.  It's now stored in /var/log/rc.log.
However, mine is an empty file even though I have rc_logger="yes"


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

[covici]

William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 07:00:34PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote:
> > > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first
> > > > time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was
> > > > logged to /var/log/boot.msg.  It doesn't do this on the new
> > > > machine and I can't for the life of me recall what setting
> > > > invoked this behaviour.   Help??
> > >
> > > /etc/conf.d/rc
> > 
> > Thanks for the reminder, walt.  I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored there 
> > and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot splash, 
> > but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.
>  
>  If you are running ~amd64 you are probably using baselayout-2 and
>  openrc.  In that case the file you should be looking at is /etc/rc.conf and you
>  should not use app-admin/showconsole.
> 
> Just set RC_LOGGER to yes as shown in the comments.
I discovered that the reason its blank is there is something rotating
the file, even though I don't have it in logrotate.conf or logrotate.d
-- very strange.

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